STEVE PETERS 100/200/400 M55 Champion
Regarding his work with the British Olympic Cycling team.
 " It's brilliant, a privilege to be part of the Olympic teams. To contribute sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. Obviously just on trial still and we are waiting for London. I do the mental skills, anything to do with people. It's great fun and a fantastic privilege.'
    You have done well at different age groups through the years!
" I had a year off. This is my first year back in. It was tough but that was OK. (just after his 200 win). I think part of the secret with all of this is that those of us who manage to stay injury free and keep supple, that is hard, as the body starts giving up. You can't do what you did 20 years ago but the bottom line for me, it's only my opinion, is that if you are going in with the right attitude---It is all about, once you have had fun you can win. If you are not smiling when you passed the line you are probably losing. I know in the World Masters Final 400, someone had a  go at me and, they caught me on camera laughing. In the last 30 metres. I was not fit enough to do it and lost places and ended up third BUT  to me that was one of the best races I have ever run so that's a test. It' only fun, it's only Old men and women' enjoying themselves, as long as we keep that in mind. I do take the racing seriously though."

            JOHN BATCHELOR (68) M65 ( 5K Champion in 19:15.69.He has won the Over 65' British 5k three times in four years and as a young man ran 49.30 for 10 miles in the hilly Hampstead 10. A keen Ilford AC clubman)
    "The race win was as good as I could expect for the condition I am in. Not  quite there yet. Had a bit of time out with two bouts of Achilles. Three weeks ago my elbow came up swollen so, I could not train. Bursitis might be the cause by gout, rupturing and going into the arm. I had to pick myself up from nowhere and I did a 5000 in 20.04, which was a personal worst, but I had just done a 71.6 400 twenty minutes before. Looking back I won the Essex Vets four times in my 40's (He was also British Vets 5 and 10k Champion on the track in his 40's ). After that the only running I did was at the firm I worked for which was at a relatively low level. I did keep running every day  when I felt like it. It is actually guilt that drives you Alastair. You can't sit in a chair and say I don't want to run anymore or anything like that. Something is telling you, you have got to get up and go out there or something is wrong. The main influence is peer pressure. You can call it loyalty to your clubmates and them dragging you out or whatever. It is peer pressure and personal guilt about not making the best of what you can do with yourself. In My 50's I ran a further couple of times but got so many injuries calf pulls, hamstring pulls but I have got some idea why now!'
    'At the age of 54 I bought myself a treadmill on the basis that, if the muscle went I did not have to walk home and injure myself more by walking home from 3 miles away! With the treadmill I did not get any injuries on that. I trained solidly on that for three years. I did not do anything else. I was called out to do a relay for the club after three years of that. Found out how different it was to running on the road  BUT it was only when I retired from work I really started running again and I enjoyed it again'
    'At the moment I am alternating between outdoor runs and the treadmill. I take a back pack and go by train for say over an hour and get off and run by the canals, rivers or old railway tracks. Resistance work. I always make sure the wind is behind me. I plan it that way."